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Dataset of the locations of each shooting during the massacre that took place in Hungerford, England, on 19 August 1987. Each row represents a location at which one or more people were shot by the gun-man.

Usage

hungerford_shootings

Format

A data frame with 16 rows and 4 columns:

victims

The names of the victims shot at this location, marked with a dagger symbol (†) if the victim was killed

order

The order in which the locations happened in time

easting

British National Grid easting co-ordinate

northing

British National Grid northing co-ordinate

This dataset is also available as a stand-alone file in CSV format at https://mpjashby.github.io/crimemappingdata/hungerford_shootings.csv.

Licence: Open Government Licence

Source

Official report into the massacre